When the textile industry, as well as the history of the textile industry development?
Chinese machine textile originated in five thousand years ago Neolithic spinning wheel and waist machine. Western Zhou Dynasty with the traditional performance of the simple mechanical reeling car, spinning, looms have emerged, the Han Dynasty widely used jacquard machine, oblique loom, after the Tang Chinese textile machinery is maturing, greatly promoted the development of the textile industry.
Silk is the most excellent, longest and finest textile fiber in all natural fibers and can be woven in a variety of complex pattern jacquard fabrics. The extensive use of silk fiber, greatly promoted the ancient Chinese textile technology and textile machinery progress, so that silk production technology in ancient China to become the most unique and representative of the textile technology.
Ancient countries in the world for the textile fibers are natural fibers, usually wool, linen, cotton) three short fibers, such as the Mediterranean region before the textile fiber is only wool and linen; India Peninsula region before the use of cotton
Ancient Chinese textile and printing and dyeing technology has a very long history, as early as in the primitive society, the ancients in order to adapt to climate change, has learned to take the land, the use of natural resources as textile and printing and dyeing raw materials, and the manufacture of simple textile tools. Until today, our daily clothing, certain daily necessities and works of art are the products of textile and printing and dyeing technology.